History of Art Research Seminar Series | Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield

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Keeper of the Flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the Last of the Mughal Emperors

James Skinner’s 1825 Tashrīh al-Aqwām depicts musician Himmat Khan as a portrait subject and ethnographic archetype – a perspective wholly irreconcilable with Himmat Khan’s own biography and writings. This lecture juxtaposes various Mughal and Company-style ethnographic paintings and texts to reveal a paracolonial indigenous modernity coexisting with British knowledge systems in late Mughal India.

About Katherine Schofield

Katherine Schofield (FRAS, FRHistS) is Professor of South Asian Music and History at King’s College London. A recipient of major grants from the European Research Council and British Academy, her most recent book is Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858 (Cambridge, 2024).

Image: Miyan Himmat Khan, James Skinner, Tashrīh al-Aqwām, 1825, British Library, Add. 27,255.

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